Purple Hands Mataro 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Purple Hands Mataro 2023.

Purple Hands Mataro 2023
$45, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.

The centre of this wine is a dark pool of flavour, the edges are fresh and energetic, and the finish is both satisfying and lively at once. We head into black cherry, leather, ironstone and smoked meat flavours straight up here, though there’s also a gentle coating of vanilla-cream and an associated soft-smoothness to this wine’s mouthfeel. It’s both a serious wine and an easy wine to like. The way tannin spreads through the finish really helps to elevate it too. 92+ points.

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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